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Author : Ronald MacFadzean
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Architects
ISBN : 0710088582
Author : Gavin Stamp
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-07
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781474472821
Alexander 'Greek' Thomson is at last being recognised as an architect of genius, comparable in stature to Charles Rennie Mackintosh. Now in paperback, this is the first book in which a team of distinguished architectural commentators and historians use the latest research in the area to illuminate the full range of Thomson's talents. Thomson emerges not just as a great architect, but as a towering intellect whose theory and practice synthesised the best thought of his time in architectural history, aesthetic philosophy and, not least, theology. His ventures into urban planning are explored, and his approaches to facade design and interiors are examined in detail, while rare colour plates complete a portrait which brings this outstanding architect to life. With an Introduction by the late Sir John Summerson this volume celebrates the work of arguably the greatest exponent of the Greek Revival.
Author : Iain Borden
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2006-08-14
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781136358388
The Dissertation is one of the most demanding yet potentially most stimulating components of an architectural course. Properly done, it can be a valuable contribution not only to the students own learning development but also to the field of architecture as a whole. This book provides a complete guide to what to do, how to do it, when to do it, and the major pitfalls involved. This is a comprehensive guide to all that an architecture student might need to know about undertaking the dissertation, including new material on CD-ROM and online sources, web based research techniques, digital images, alternative imaging strategies, key architecture links, referencing and new dissertation extracts. It clearly navigates the student through the whole process of writing, preparing and submitting a dissertation, as well as suggesting what to do after the dissertation has been completed. Subjects covered include how to write a proposal, which research methodologies and techniques to adopt, which libraries and archives to utilize (including special architectural resources on the net), as well as how to structure, reference and illustrate the final submission. The authors also take architecture students into new terrain, suggesting alternative methods of undertaking dissertations, whether as video, prose writing, multimedia or other forms of expression. Furthermore, this guide includes new examples of exemplary dissertations of all kinds, as completed by students in Europe and North America so that the reader can clearly see the kinds of work which they themselves might choose to pursue. Also in the Seriously Useful Guides Series: * The Crit * The The Portfolio * Practical Experience
Author : Antonia Brodie,British Architectural Library,Royal Institute of British Architects
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 1128 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2001-12-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780826455147
A comprehensive biographical directory of some 11,000 British architects who worked between 1834 and 1914 .
Author : Gwen Chessell
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 9780244751364
A biography of Dr Alexander Thomson of Aberdeen, Scotland, who founded the City of Geelong and became its first Mayor. He played a significant part in the development of the State of Victoria, Australia.
Author : Michael Fry
Publisher : Birlinn
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857906595
War opened and closed Scotland's greatest century: a pitiless part in the defeat of Naploeon in 1815, a huge blood-sacrifice for the sake of victory from 1914. In between came the greatest contributions to the progress and happiness of the rest of mankind that the Scots have ever made - in everything from the combine harvester to the mackintosh to anaesthesia. It was a supremely successful achieving society yet one not without deep flaws, in its urban poverty, its destruction of the environment, its religious intolerance, its moral hypocrisy, its crushing of Highland culture. Michael Fry shows, with an emphasis always on the human story, how a succession of deep crises undermined the usually tranquil and prosperous surface of life in Victorian Scotland to leave a legacy of paradox that the modern nation has even today yet to overcome.
Author : Gavin Stamp
Publisher : Laurence King
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015047741544
Alexander Thomson produced a distinctive modern architecture based on a fundamentalist classicism that earned him the nickname 'Greek'. This is a thorough visual guide to his work, including buildings now demolished.
Author : David Fergusson,Mark Elliott
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780191077234
This three-volume work comprises over eighty essays surveying the history of Scottish theology from the early middle ages onwards. Written by an international team of scholars, the collection provides the most comprehensive review yet of the theological movements, figures, and themes that have shaped Scottish culture and exercised a significant influence in other parts of the world. Attention is given to different traditions and to the dispersion of Scottish theology through exile, migration, and missionary activity. The volumes present in diachronic perspective the theologies that have flourished in Scotland from early monasticism until the end of the twentieth century. The History of Scottish Theology, Volume I covers the period from the appearance of Christianity around the time of Columba to the era of Reformed Orthodoxy in the seventeenth century. Volume II begins with the early Enlightenment and concludes in late Victorian Scotland. Volume III explores the 'long twentieth century'. Recurrent themes and challenges are assessed, but also new currents and theological movements that arose through Renaissance humanism, Reformation teaching, federal theology, the Scottish Enlightenment, evangelicalism, missionary, Biblical criticism, idealist philosophy, dialectical theology, and existentialism. Chapters also consider the Scots Catholic colleges in Europe, Gaelic women writers, philosophical scepticism, the dialogue with science, and the reception of theology in liturgy, hymnody, art, literature, architecture, and stained glass. Contributors also discuss the treatment of theological themes in Scottish literature.
Author : Chris Brooks,Andrew Saint
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Church architecture
ISBN : 0719040205
This is a reassessment of the phenomenon of church architecture in the 19th century. It presents a range of interpretations that approach Victorian churches as products of institutional needs, socio-cultural developments, and economic forces.
Author : Linda Van Santvoort,Tom Verschaffel
Publisher : Leuven University Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9789058676498
"Architectural concepts and styles seem to flourish from the most local of contexts to the global." "This book investigates the regional, often conceived today as a late nineteenth-century phenomenon, primarily on account of the preservation and restoration movements that arose. An interdisciplinary approach to regionalism, as manifested not only in architecture but also in art and literature, necessitates a more thorough examination of the complexity and multilayered quality of the phenomenon." "The research is limited in lime to the nineteenth century plus the years leading up to the First World War, and in place to Western Europe, with an emphasis on Belgium, France and England, and to a lesser extent on the Netherlands, Germany and Spain."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Sheridan Gilley,Brian Stanley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 730 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0521814561
This is the first scholarly treatment of nineteenth-century Christianity to discuss the subject in a global context. Part I analyses the responses of Catholic and Protestant Christianity to the intellectual and social challenges presented by European modernity. It gives attention to the explosion of new voluntary forms of Christianity and the expanding role of women in religious life. Part II surveys the diverse and complex relationships between the churches and nationalism, resulting in fundamental changes to the connections between church and state. Part III examines the varied fortunes of Christianity as it expanded its historic bases in Asia and Africa, established itself for the first time in Australasia, and responded to the challenges and opportunities of the European colonial era. Each chapter has a full bibliography providing guidance on further reading.
Author : James Stevens Curl,Susan Wilson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 1040 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-26
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780191053856
Containing over 6,000 entries from Aalto to Zwinger and written in a clear and concise style, this authoritative dictionary covers architectural history in detail, from ancient times to the present day. It also includes concise biographies of hundreds of architects from history (excluding living persons), from Sir Francis Bacon and Imhotep to Liang Ssu-ch'eng and Francis Inigo Thomas. The text is complemented by over 260 beautiful and meticulous line drawings, labelled cross-sections, and diagrams. These include precise drawings of typical building features, making it easy for readers to identify particular period styles. This third edition of The Oxford Dictionary of Architecture has been extensively revised and expanded, with over 900 new entries including hundreds of definitions of garden and landscape terms such as Baroque garden, floral clock, hortus conclusus, and Zen garden-design. Each entry is followed by a mini-bibliography, with suggestions for further reading. The full bibliography to the first edition (previously only available online) has also been fully updated and expanded, and incorporated into this new edition. This is an essential work of reference for anyone with an interest in architectural and garden history. With clear descriptions providing in-depth analysis, it is invaluable for students, professional architects, art historians, and anyone interested in architecture and garden design, and provides a fascinating wealth of information for the general reader.
Author : Mark Crinson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-11
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781136181153
The colonial architecture of the nineteenth century has much to tell us of the history of colonialism and cultural exchange. Yet, these buildings can be read in many ways. Do they stand as witnesses to the rapacity and self-delusion of empire? Are they monuments to a world of lost glory and forgotten convictions? Do they reveal battles won by indigenous cultures and styles? Or do they simply represent an architectural style made absurdly incongruous in relocation? Empire Building is a study of how and why Western architecture was exported to the Middle East and how Islamic and Byzantine architectural ideas and styles impacted on the West. The book explores how far racial theory and political and religious agendas guided British architects (and how such ideas were resisted when applied), and how Eastern ideas came to influence the West, through writers such as Ruskin and buildings such as the Crystal Palace. Beautifully written and lavishly illustrated, Empire Building takes the reader on an extraordinary postcolonial journey, backwards and forwards, into the heart and to the edge of empire.
Author : Alexander Thomson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Architects
ISBN : UOM:39015043193179
Author : British Architectural Library,Royal Institute of British Architects
Publisher : Burns & Oates
Page : 1080 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UCSD:31822018810176